Cycling

Cycling clubs and groups

Local cycling clubs and groups

• Café Stop Riders
• Experience Community CIC
• Holmfirth CC
• Hop On
• Huddersfield and District CTC
• Huddersfield Star Wheelers
• Kirklees Cycling Campaign & Cycle Kirklees
• Kirklees Cycling Academy
• Kirklees Riders Group
• Oakwell Hall cycle track
• Ravensthorpe CC
• Ride Kirklees
• Streetbikes
• Tandem Trekkers
• Team ride

West Yorkshire organisations

• City Connect
• Yorkshire Sport: Cycling

National cycling organisations

• British Cycling
• Cycling UK
• Living Streets
• Sustrans

Routes and rights of way

Safe cycle routes

• Bradford Red Bridge Route
• Calder Valley Greenway - Huddersfield to Dewsbury
  This extends upstream from Brighouse to Hebden Bridge and beyond, much of it on the towpath of the Calder and Hebble Navigation.
• Dewsbury and Ossett Greenways
• Hebden Bridge to Brighouse
• Meltham Greenway
  The first phase of this is complete and runs from Station Street, Meltham and passes alongside Morrisons supermarket and out on the former rail corridor to Huddersfield Road at Meltham Mills.
• Spen Valley Greenway and Ringway
• West Yorkshire Interactive Cycle Map
  Plan on and off-road routes across West Yorkshire. Includes cycle shops, cycle parking, bicycle crossing points and community cycle hubs.

Rights of way

Public rights of way

Have your say

Have your say about our future cycling and walking improvement schemes: Your Voice: Projects

Have you say about our major transport schemes.

Mention cycling and walking provision when you talk to us about your local community: Take part in a local discussion online

Cycling activities and training

Cycle training and cycling to work

Cycling activities, events and groups

Bike retailers

• The Cycling Experts
  A directory of independent retailers and workshops.

Cycling opportunities, organisations and events

There are plenty of cycling opportunities available for children, young people and adults and you can find our more information from the cycling opportunities booklet; including training, bike rides, and community activities. You can get involved with local cycling events, training and bike maintenance sessions too.

• Cycling opportunities booklet
• Cycling events
• Cycling organisations

Tour de France Legacy

Kirklees Council, with the other West Yorkshire local authorities and those across the Yorkshire and Humber region signed up to deliver a cycling legacy from the Tour de France in 2014.

• Cycle Yorkshire

At a West Yorkshire level, West Yorkshire Sport leads the Cycle West Yorkshire group consisting of transport, leisure and health representatives of the local authorities, plus the West Yorkshire Combined Authority, British Cycling, the CTC and Sustrans.

• Cyclescheme West Yorkshire

Bike retailers

The Cycling Experts - A directory of independent retailers and workshops.

Walking and cycling framework

Kirklees Council, and partners, have an ambition to increase the numbers of people walking and cycling. The Strategic Framework supports the council's economic and joint health and wellbeing strategies and compliments a range of partner policies and strategies.

• Kirklees walking and cycling strategic framework 2018 - 2030

Contacts for cycling information

Cycle routes